Registration children's summer music camps

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Jul 26, 2018 at 2:07 PMJul 26, 2018 at 2:07 PM

WELLSVILLE — Registration is underway for two free children's summer music camps, scheduled to start this month at Scio and Wellsville churches under direction of a Venezuelan music team that includes a member of that country's national symphony orchestra and the former director of a 900-member children's choir and orchestra in the jungles of that nation.

The activities, to be held from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, will be from July 29 to Aug. 2 at Knights Creek Evangelical Methodist Church at Scio, and from August 5 to 9 at Wellsville Bible Church. Other locations may be added based on community interest.

Leaders of the camp will be David Peralta, a music missionary at Knights Creek and member of the Simon Bolivar Venezuelan Symphony Orchestra, and Raquel Acevado and her husband, Daniel Escriban, of Houghton. The Acevado-Escriban family, including their two teenage children, along with Peralta, comprise Knights Creek music ministry team. Acevedo led the nationally-recognized children's choir until political unrest caused her and her family to leave Venezuela last year.

Students ages six through 14, will receive instruction in music basics that they can expand upon in the future.

The team already provides free weekly individual lessons for children and adults following Sunday morning worship services and a community dinner at the Knights Creek church.

The focus will be on violin, guitar, cello, mandolin, piano and voice, although instruction can be adapted to other instruments.

Further information and required registration for limited spaces is available from Casey Jones, Knights Creek Church community outreach, at bps461@msn.com or (484) 435-0503.

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